Thread: strings

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    strings

    i have a string name str
    i want to put the char's in places 3-6 in another string called st.
    how do i do that?

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    is this a string or a char*? you can access the elements in the 'string' by their indices (ie: str[2] = st[0]'). you can overwrite the characters there, but you cant resize the length of your char*

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    Code:
    strncpy(st, str+3, 4);
    st[4] = '\0';

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